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Transient flicker noise model in Verilog-A
Jan 23rd, 2006, 9:04am
 
Does anyone have experience in modeling flicker noise in Verilog-A for use in transient simulations?  We have modeled noise in the past using the random function in combination with an S-domain filter on the output.  However, the designer has asked for noise with a lowpass characteristic of 10 dB/dec rolloff.  I am not sure how to easily model this in Verilog-A.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  

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Re: Transient flicker noise model in Verilog-A
Reply #1 - Jan 23rd, 2006, 10:36am
 
In Spectre you can use the fracpole component to create an impedance that exhibits a half-pole rolloff over a pre-specified range of frequencies. If you are not using Spectre, you can use the fracpole suite available from this website (http://www.designers-guide.org/Modeling/fracpole.zip), but you will have to convert the netlists to be compatible with your simulator.

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Reply #2 - Jan 23rd, 2006, 12:45pm
 
Thanks, Ken.   Smiley  I tried it in Spectre and that looks like a fairly straightforward method to generate the lowpass filter with 10dB/dec rolloff.  

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